Spörer (moon crater)
Spörer | ||
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Spörer (top left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 4.35 ° S , 1.82 ° W | |
diameter | 27 km | |
depth | 320 m | |
Card sheet | 77 (PDF) | |
Named after | Gustav Spörer (1822–1895) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Spörer is an impact crater on the front of the moon southeast of the Sinus Medii , southeast of the Flammarion crater and north of Herschel . The crater is heavily eroded, the rim of the crater in the south almost eroded.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 3.46 ° S , 2.12 ° W | 5 km | [1] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Gustav Spörer .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .